Foreign ministers of EU member states did not agree to send military aid known as "European Peace Facility" in their informal meeting in Brussels.

Novosti news agency reported, quoting sources, that England has suggested that NATO allies consider sending the alliance's overseas forces to Ukraine.

Russia and Ukraine traded hundreds of prisoners of war on Wednesday, just a week after Moscow said Kyiv had shot down a plane carrying captured Ukrainian soldiers to an exchange.

Russia has carried out a wave of attacks on Ukraine, killing 18 people and injuring more than 130, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said, with a sports club in central Kyiv one of several civilian buildings damaged.

Western and Ukrainian officials have said that if the United States and Europe do not resume their financial support to Kiev, there is a possibility that the Ukrainian government will shut down due to lack of funds.

The number of fatalities in the Ukrainian shelling of a busy market in Donetsk has climbed to at least 25, Denis Pushilin, the leader of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic said.

The authorities of Donetsk province announced that 25 people were killed during shelling of Kirovsky district by Ukraine.

In a strange statement, the head of Ukraine's military intelligence service implied the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder and commander of the Russian private military group Wagner, and said that Wagner is still active. He also admitted that this country cannot continue the war with Russia without mobilizing new forces.

Pointing out that the February 10th 2014 coup in Ukraine took place with the direct support of America and Western countries and with their money and help, Dmitry Zhirnov added that in the bloody events of the Ukrainian coup, radical forces with a nationalist spirit came to power in Kiev and committed crimes. which has not yet been evaluated legally ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated that if the pattern of war continues, the Ukrainian government may suffer an irreparable blow and Russia will never have to give up its achievements to stop this war.

More than 80 countries held talks on Sunday seeking common ground on Ukraine’s peace formula, as the Swiss co-hosts admitted that including Russia in negotiations remains some way off.

Ukraine suffered a large Russian missile attack in the early hours of Saturday, while its air defenses were able to down a far lower proportion of them than usual.

23.7 million people in Afghanistan need humanitarian aid in 2024. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), has said.

Yury Latsenko, the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine, said that the authorities of this country should openly and honestly admit that 500,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the war with Russia.

Russian media have reported that Russia plans to produce more than 32,000 drones annually by 2030, with domestic manufacturers accounting for 70 percent of the market.

More than 470 prisoners of war return home on both sides after the swap deals stalled in the latter half of 2023.

Germany's parliament member for the military budget has admitted that only a small number of the modern Leopard 2 tanks that Germany supplied to Ukraine have been deployed on the battlefield because Europe is facing a shortage of spare parts to repair them.

Ukraine's weekend attack on the Russian city of Belgorod, which has left dozens of civilian’s dead and injured, was an act of terrorism, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. Kiev will not be left unpunished when it engages in such activities, he warned.

The Ukrainian Air Force announced the largest Russian drone attack against the country on the first night of the New Year.

Western media have reported that 10 people were killed and 45 others were injured in the attacks of the Ukrainian army on the city of Belgorod in western Russia.